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Q.Modern man belongs to which period ?
(a) Quaternary
(b) Cambrian
(c) Cretaceous
(d) Silurian
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →Anatomically modern humans arose and exist within the Quaternary period, the current and most recent period of geological time.
The geological time scale places the emergence and spread of the genus Homo, and specifically anatomically modern Homo sapiens (appearing roughly 200,000-300,000 years ago), within the Quaternary period, which is subdivided into the Pleistocene and the present Holocene epochs. Cambrian, Silurian and Cretaceous are much older periods (Cambrian and Silurian in the Palaeozoic era, over 400-540 million year …
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